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6/14/2016 1:47PM

U.S. Attorney Bharara Says Government Needs Ability to ‘Peek’ at Communications

There cannot be an absolutist stance against government surveillance of communications, Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told Wall Street Journal Deputy Editor in Chief Rebecca Blumenstein at WSJ’s CFO Network Tuesday. “There are people who are trying to slaughter all of you, and the people that are trying to protect against that are doing so in good faith,” Mr. Bharara said.